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Blue Ant Media Greenlights a Lineup of New and Returning Original Natural History Content

12 February 2026

The content, commissioned for Blue Ant Media’s global Love Nature brand, will be available for licensing through Blue Ant Rights

Latest titles include Europe’s Wild Kingdoms, Superbeast, Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit Season 2 and Wild Germany

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Blue Ant Media is announcing the greenlight of four original programs available for licensing at London Screenings, including Europe’s Wild Kingdoms, shown above, produced by Le Cincquième Rêve, along with co-production partner ARTE G.E.I.E.

(TORONTO – February 12, 2026) – Blue Ant Media, a global streamer, production studio, and rights business, announced today the greenlight of four natural history series, commissioned by its global natural history brand, Love Nature, and available for licensing in non-commissioning territories by Blue Ant Rights. The original programs including Europe’s Wild Kingdoms, Superbeast, Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit Season 2, and Wild Germany are produced by an array of renowned natural history producers and offer a bouquet of fresh and fascinating wildlife stories that highlight Blue Ant Media’s status as a global leader in specialist factual content. The series will be available for licensing outside of commissioning territories as part of the new offerings Blue Ant Rights is bringing to London Screenings. 

The commissions are overseen by Alison Barrat, SVP, Head of Content, Global Channels & Streaming who leads Blue Ant Media’s original commissions across the company’s diverse portfolio of factual channels.

“These new series reflect our global commissioning strategy of investing in compelling and unexpected natural history content that connects with audiences on our owned and operated linear and streaming channels,” says Alison Barrat, SVP, Head of Content, Global Channels & Streaming. “Leveraging Blue Ant’s integrated approach between our channels and rights businesses allows us to maximize the reach of our original commissions with third-party platform partners.”

The newly greenlit original series include:  

Europe’s Wild Kingdoms (2 x 60’)
Producer: Le Cinquième Rêve
Co-Production partner: ARTE G.E.I.E.
International Rights: Blue Ant Rights
With exclusive access, this two-part series delves deep into Europe’s most beautiful heritage sites to reveal how they are inextricably linked to the wildlife living there. Mont-St-Michel and the castles of the Loire Valley in France, Bran Castle in Romania, Alhambra in Spain and Duart Castle in Scotland are just some of the many famous cultural heritage sites in Europe that, beneath their grand splendour, hide many secrets and surprises. After centuries of war and peace, upheaval and settlement, these heritage sites and their surrounding natural habitats are home to a diversity of wildlife that have forged relationships with heritage sites in their own unique ways. Ambitious drone shots and long lenses along with infrared, remote, and time-lapse filming never-before-seen views of these magnificent heritage, showing fascinating animal behaviour unfolding through the seasons.

Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit Season 2 (6 x 30’)
Producer: Breakout Productions
International Rights: Blue Ant Rights
Season 2 of Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit continues following a team of elite snake handlers as they go head-to-head with some of the deadliest snakes on the planet. Set against the backdrop of Queensland’s picturesque Sunshine Coast, the snake wranglers once again come up against some of the most venomous snakes in the world including Australia’s deadliest – the eastern brown. In each episode, the team, led by venomous snake guru Stuart McKenzie, answer calls from everyday Aussies whose homes have been invaded by these fearsome reptiles. Time is always the enemy as snakes can disappear in the blink of an eye, leaving families distraught and fearing for their lives. But Stuart and his team don’t stop until the snake is caught and relocated – even if that means putting their own lives on the line!

Superbeast (6 x 60’)
Producer: WildBear Entertainment
International Rights: Blue Ant Rights
Through a classic play-of-the-day format, this fun and entertaining series captures nature at its reddest, rawest, most powerful, most intelligent, and fastest. Each episode delivers an ascending list of the top tier wildlife abilities in a specific category, focusing on their extraordinary skills. The list will always be curated for surprise and revelation, whether that’s the fastest, deadliest, sneakiest, trickiest. So while the cheetah is technically the quickest thing on land, a gaboon viper with a strike so fast it can’t be seen may just leave the cheetah spinning its wheels in second place. Human sport comparisons are employed to keep everything real and relatable, giving an understandable and memorable scale to the world’s Superbeasts. 

Wild Germany (2 x 60’)
Producer: Doclights
Deep in the heart of northern Germany lies a surprising wilderness. Wild Germany reveals an intimate portrait of an ancient cultural landscape, where forests, wetlands and mountains shelter an abundance of life. Elusive wildcats prowl the undergrowth, lynxes and wolves return to reclaim their ancestral range, beavers engineer entire ecosystems along natural floodplains, while shy mouflons roam the open land. Along riverbanks, nutrias bask in the sun and dragonflies hunt. It is a realm with more than 200 bird species—from elegant swifts to cranes, and colorful mallards to shimmering bee-eaters. In the south of the region rises Germany’s northernmost mountain range: the Harz. Known for its dramatic weather, snowstorms in winter and rain-soaked forests in summer. Here, majestic red deer roar in the valleys, while the lynx – once extinct in Germany – has made a remarkable comeback. Through these forests, rivers, plains and mountains run a common thread: resilience.

About Blue Ant Studios
An award-winning international production and rights management business, Blue Ant Studios’ diverse slate spans premium factual and high-impact documentaries, competition and entertainment formats, lifestyle, kids, youth and family, comedy, drama and animation, for broadcasters and streamers throughout the world. A division of Blue Ant Media (TSX: BAMI), the Studio encompasses Blue Ant Studios, Insight Productions, Jam Filled Entertainment and Atomic Cartoons. Its award-winning slate includes iconic, fan-favourite shows such as Blown Away, Canada’s Drag Race, Mysteries From Above, Davey and Jonesie’s Locker, Kim’s Convenience, Highway Thru Hell, Top Chef Canada, Northwoods Survival, The Great Canadian Baking Show and Amazing Race Canada. 

The Studio’s International distribution arm, Blue Ant Rights, represents over 9,000 hours of acclaimed content from Blue Ant Studios and third-party producers, maximizing rights opportunities and connecting buyers with programming that resonates with global audiences. With offices in Toronto, London, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Ottawa, Halifax, Singapore, Sydney, and Vancouver, the studio is well-positioned in key markets worldwide. blueantmedia.com⎮Instagram⎮LinkedIn

About Blue Ant Media Corporation 
Blue Ant Media (TSX: BAMI) is an international streamer, production studio, and rights-management business. The company operates a diverse portfolio of free streaming and pay TV channels internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, and Love Pets, as well as the global SVOD service MagellanTV. Its studio business produces and distributes a wide range of premium content across key genres for streaming and broadcast platforms worldwide. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with a presence in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Singapore, London, Washington, Sydney, Halifax, Ottawa and Vancouver. blueantmedia.com⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn

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